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Northern School of Practical Learning as the Contents

  • The Research of the Korean Classic
  • 2019, (46), pp.113-150
  • DOI : 10.20516/classic.2019.46.113
  • Publisher : The Research Of The Korean Classic
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > Korean classic prose
  • Received : June 28, 2019
  • Accepted : August 18, 2019
  • Published : August 31, 2019

KIM IL HWAN 1

1동국대학교

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ABSTRACT

‘Northern school of practical learning’ in this paper means those who were united around Park Ji-won and Hong Dae-yong in late 18th- century as being called ‘Yeonam group’, ‘Yeonam School’, ‘Damyeon group’, or ‘Damyeon party’ depending on researchers. They were teachers and students, seniors and juniors, and friends. The humane solidarity and hobbies they demonstrated and their attitudes and acts on the circumstances in their times remain in their literary works and artistic achievement and make us living in these days feel intellectual interest, beauty and impression. This paper investigated the life of the Northern school of practical learning around the series of ‘Baektap School’, the historical novel by Kim Tak-hwan and the approach and process restoring the historic and social direction. The travel to the Ching dynasty, academic exploration, communication and interactivity with the public as well as the intellectuals and the encounter with old territory and history by the Northern school of practical learning are converged into the record on the experience, that is, Record of Travels of Korean Embassies to China, and the experience ‘envoy to Ching’. The representative record is ‘Rehe Diary’ by Park Ji-won. This paper identified how people living in the 21stcentury meet the Northern school of practical learning by analyzing the essay on visiting the sites described in ‘Rehe Diary’. Through both approaches above, it was identified that the researchers and authors shoud sincerely deliberate the importance of the translation on the classics and what and how to be newly created.

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